Layout with some older pictures

Today is the first day of GS107 class that I am taking. You can see the details of the class here if you are interesting in joining as well. I love Valerie's sketches.

There are some challenges going on over Bella Blvd Blog as well and one of them was to use cute cuts. I do not own any Bella Blvd products and hence no cute cuts, but I found some really nice chipboard die cuts in my vacation stash and so I am hoping these will work instead of the cute cuts. So, I am entering this LO for the Bella Blvd challenge as well.

These are pictures from our Hawaii Trip (Oahu actually) in the year 2000. Our first anniversary vacation. I had to get the negatives scanned to get the digi prints, so the quality is not that great, but I love the memories associated with these pictures and so I had to create LO's with them.

I am also getting more bolder and experimental with my PSE10. I did not have much space on the tag to write with my own handwriting. So, I created a blank document in PSE 10, wrote the journaling and then printed it directly on the tag. YAY!!! Was so happy with the final result.

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Supplies:
Stamp - None
Paper - SU, PTI Patterned papers, Coredinations Card stock
Ink - Copics marker
Other - Chipboard vacation accents, Creative Memories Hexagonal punch

February Viva La Verve Challenges - Week 1 and 2

It had been a while since I participated in Verve Sketch Challenges on SCS. Life happened and time was running!!!!! But I loved all the 4 sketches from February and decided to play. There is still time if you are interested to participate as well - Click here to visit their thread on SCS Forum.(Verve stamps are not needed, I use them as it is a good time to put these stamps to use).

Here are my cards from Week 1 and 2,

For both these cards I used VERVE Stamp set called Making a statement. I just love this set (the font for sentiments is amazing I think). I am not getting paid to say this - but I love VERVE and their fast shipping and this stamp set is on their spring sale right not.

They also have a die for the loopy flowers, next time I will for sure get those as it will be easier than cutting the by hand.

Here are the sketches,
Week1 -

Week 2 -

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Supplies:
Stamp - Verve Making a Statement
Paper- PTI White, Brown and Kraft Cardstock, Making Memories, Stampin Up and OA Patterned paper
Ink - Memento Black, Ranger DI Iced Spruce and Faded Jeans
Other - Circle Punches, Copics, Pearl Embellishment

Riley Birthday Card

Hello Friends, I was in a mild creative slump. I was creating some of my LOAD pages and working on my PL, but had not taken pictures and posted on blog as I felt that some of them had quite a bit of personal stories etc. I have to yet learn how to mask certain areas of a photographed page using PSE10. But today I made a card with a new (I mean new for me) Riley stamps that I had acquired a while ago and had not used.

This card is for three Challenges,

1) February Sketch for you to Try.
2) Riley and Co Challenge - Going Around in Circles.
3) Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Use three different papers.

I used patterned papers from PTI, MME and Making Memories. All the paper used on this card is from my stash which makes me very happy. I colored the Juggling Riley image with Copics and then added some Glossy Accents to the balls. Inside I used one of the patterned papers and added sentiment from PTI Birthday Bash. Riley and Co has some cute circus sentiment stamp set, but I do not have that, but I thought the sentiment Who is Counting, kind of went well with this image.

I was inspired by my Friend Michele and Imke's cards.

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Supplies:
Stamp - Riley and Co Juggling Riley, PTI Birthday Bash
Ink - Memento Black, Copics, PTI Inking Cube Chai
Paper - PTI White, True Black and Spring Moss Card stock, PTI, MME and Making Memories Patterned Paper
Other - Buttons from Stash, Circle Punches, Nestabilities, Ranger Glossy Accents

Load Day5

Today was Day 5 of Load212 and today's prompt was "what has not changed"..I was getting so many ideas. This LO was the first idea I got, I am working on another layout for this prompt.

I used pictures of myself with my mom, husband and brother - an older picture as well as a newer picture.

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Golden Memories - Past Perfect

I am participating in Lain Ehmann's Load212 - Past Perfect. It started on Feb 1st. I have not yet fully completed day 1 and 2's prompts. But I wanted to share the two layouts that I did for Day 3 (Who am I today) and Day 4(The More things change).

Day 3 - Who Am I today - I figured who I am today is because of how my childhood was and how my parents raised me..So I created a layout with a few of my childhood photos with some journaling.

Day 4 - The more things change - I guess relationships become stronger and you grow more..That is what my layout talks about. My relationship with my brother as years have changed.

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Supplies:
Paper - Coredinations Cardstock, SU patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black, PTI Chai Inking cube
Stamps - None
Other - Gemstone embellishemnt, Prima flowers, Pearl Flower centers, AC Thickers